Shield

As Professor Annette Gordon Reed contends in his paper regarding the HLS shield, “…this is a moment for daring and creativity... [and] this would be the perfect time to… tie the past to the present and to the future.” Upon visiting the slavery memorial at HLS, I noticed that the way the administration decided to “tie the past to the future” was to celebrate the hard work and materialized contribution slavery made to the “…founding of Harvard Law School”. Nevertheless, I think that there could…

In Homer’s poem, the Iliad, Homer goes through great lengths to describe “The Shield of Achilles.” Homer creates this masterpiece by using imagery to express the world beyond the battlefield, while also painting a picture of heroic, yet destructive, battle scenes. Achilles’ shield symbolically represents the lives of human civilization in the ancient world and provides perspective on the entire war by implying that war constitutes as only one aspect of life. In addition, Homer provides a small…

been erupting continuously since Jan. 3, 1983.Kilauea is thought to have killed around 80 people when it erupted without warning in the late 1780s.Most recently 2,000 people to evacuate thier homes.The volcano’s elevation is 4,091.Mt.Kilauea is a shield volcano which are the largest volcanos in the world.Kilauea is one of five volcanoes that make up Hawaii. The other four are Kohala, Hualalai, Mauna Loa, and Mauna Kea.Kohola is the oldest volcano on Hawaii Island at more than one million years…

These works can act as either a distraction from our problems or create parallels to them allowing us to view them from a new light. In her essay “Because she’s a woman”: Myth and Metafiction in Carol Shields’ Unless, Nora Stovel, a renowned professor at the University of Alberta, argues that Carol Shields uses (particularly in her final book, Unless) metafiction to illustrate how fiction can be an escapist method to step…

“Volcanic eruptions are the most awesome and powerful display of nature’s force” (Sigurdsson et al. 2) is a quote from the author Haraldur Sigurdsson that describes the breathtaking sight one may behold from the experience of witnessing the eruption of a volcano. However, innumerable aspects contribute to this gorgeous display. The fascinating eruption varies vastly depending upon numerous factors working within a volcano, and the shapes of volcanoes may affect the way an environment copes with…

I am Michala Jordyn Butler, the daughter of Paul Butler. We have a large Jewish family that descended from Russia. The crest of my shield is a bear which symbolizes my Russian heritage, the steadfast manner a bear evokes. My grandfather served in the military and was stationed in Korea. Thus, the helm of my shield is a helmet. The wavy heraldic lines represent how my ancestors came to America to find religious freedom. When my ancestors came to America through Ellis Island their heavy Russian…

Homer’s story of Achilles’ shield. They have created and shared paintings and poems, each showing a slightly different version of the famous piece of metal. One artist who describes the shield of Achilles is the poet W. H. Auden. His rendition of the shield differs markedly from Homer’s original. Homer’s depiction of the ancient Greek world on the shield is a microcosm of humanity, displaying both peace and conflict enveloped by nature. Auden’s description of the shield is a bleak vision of the…

Lakes. The St.Lawrence Lowlands is right between the Appalachian Mountains and the Canadian Shield. The Canadian Shield, also known as the Laurentian Plateau, is a rocky basin that covers nearly half of Canada stretching from the Hudson Bay to the Great Lakes. The Canadian Shield is an extremely rocky plateau that is not able to provide much growth for agricultural advancement, however the Canadian Shield is full of minerals and natural resources that make the land very precious and beneficial…

human life with just the essentials, but on a trip to Mars which could take 68 days (Sample), there would need to be enough energy to keep this shield up for all that time on the way to Mars and on the way back. This is a considerably large amount of energy that needs to be added to the ship. While there are many problems that could be found in this type of shield, the mastermind of recent studies, Bamford and colleagues, states that this idea could be assembled and implemented by 2020…

Shields and Identity When discussing the concept of identity as it relates to characters who have been transformed by traumatic events it is imperative to also discuss the ways in which these characters protect their identities. In Death and the Dervish and The Houses of Belgrade, both leading characters employ their own devices to preserve their idea of self. To begin, a baseline sense of identity must be established in order to better understand and examine the shields each protagonist uses.…